Volunteer Community Preparedness Trainer: Palo Alto Hero

PALO ALTO, CA — When times are tough, heroes emerge. We all know someone who's making a difference right now as we live through unprecedented and changing times.

Here at Patch, we've launched an initiative to help recognize these heroes making a difference in their communities. Together with Ring, we're working to let all your neighbors know about these outstanding people and their stories.

This submission comes from Mark Meyers, who nominated fellow volunteer-CERT team trainer John Mori

Reason for recognition: This person continues to volunteer to help train community members to be more resilient in a disaster. John has been involved over 10 years doing his part to help the Palo Alto community.

One thing to know: Incredible volunteer and super helpful with technology support and policy and procedure author.

Thanks for all you do, John!

>> Do YOU have a local hero you would like us to know about? Share their story here. Read about other heroes from across California here.

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